Life's Ebb And Flow Chapter IV. In August 1886, my [Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick (age 4)] sister [her half-sister] Blanche (age 2) married the Duke of Richmond’s (age 48) son, Lord Algernon Gordon-Lennox (age 18), in Little Easton church [Map], the Bishop of St. Albans [Map] performing the service, and a family party assembling. The only child of this marriage is my niece, Ivy, Marchioness of Titchfield, who married the eldest son [William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 7th Duke Portland] of the present Duke (age 8) and Duchess (age 2) of Portland.

Life's Ebb And Flow Chapter IV. [Around 1881]. Of another group were Henry (age 28) and Violet Manners (age 24), the late Duke of Rutland and the present Dowager Duchess, Lord Rowton (age 42), the witty Henry Calcraft, Mr. and Mrs. Henry White (later Ambassadors of the United States in Paris, both now dead), beautiful Gladys deGrey (the late Marchioness of Ripon), Sir Robert Collier (the painter, father of the Hon. John Collier), Lady Randolph Churchill (age 26) (who was first at Easton in 1885, and figured in all our gatherings afterwards), Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton, and Henry Chaplin (age 40) ("the Squire," the late Lord Chaplin), and Lord and Lady Carmarthen (afterwards the late Duke and Duchess of Leeds). Sir William Gordon Cumming, the smartest of men about town and more sinned against than sinning, was a constant friend, but he cut us all off in his retirement, and I often had sad thoughts of him, and always kept a warm comer in my heart for him. Mr. and Mrs. Hwfa Williams, who founded Sandown Park racing, were welcome everywhere. Maurice and Beatrice Ephrussi were dear Paris racing friends. Prince Charles Kinsky rode his own winner of the Grand National, "Zoedone," and was a sharer of my horsey adventures!

Life's Ebb And Flow Chapter IV. [30 Apr 1881]. And so the tale unfolds. Our [[her husband] Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke (age 28) and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick (age 19)] marriage took place in the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey, and the newspapers of the day made much of the "most brilliant wedding of a dozen seasons." I remember my surprise as I drove from our house in Carlton Gardens to the Abbey to find the way lined with interested crowds.

Among the guests were the Prince (age 39) and Princess of Wales (age 36), Prince and Princess Christian, the Duke (age 30) and Duchess of Connaught (age 20), Princess Louise (age 33) (Marchioness of Lorne), Princess Mary Adelaide (age 47) (Duchess of Teck) and the Duke of Teck (parents of Queen Mary), with Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (age 28), as my husband’s best man. The crush filled the Abbey from the choir to the door.

My twelve bridesmaids were all girl friends and relatives. They were: [her half-sister] Blanche Maynard (age 17), my sister (now Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox (age 33)), Lady [her sister-in-law] Eva Greville (age 21), my husband’s only sister, my stepsisters, [her half-sister] Millicent (age 13), [her half-sister] Sybil (age 9), and Angela St. Clair Erskine (age 4) (later Duchess of Sutherland, Countess of Westmorland, and Lady A. Forbes), Countess Feodore Gleichen (age 19) (later a renowned sculptor), Lady Florence Bridgman (age 22) (the present Countess of Harewood and mother of Viscount Lascelles (age 34)), Miss Wombwell (age 19) (Countess of Dartrey), Miss Mills, the first Lord Hillingdon’s daughter, Miss Violet Lindsay (age 25) (now Violet, Duchess of Rutland), and Miss Ethel Milner (age 30) (later Countess of Durham).

1897. James Lafayette (age 44). Photograph of Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick (age 35).

1897. James Lafayette (age 44). Photograph of Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick (age 35).

1905. John Singer Sargent (age 48). Portrait of Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick (age 43) and her son [her son] Maynard Greville (age 6).

Maynard Greville: On 21 Mar 1898 he was born to Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick. Some sources describe his father as Joseph Frederick Laycock. In 1967 Maynard Greville died.

18 Aug 1910. Bassano Ltd. Photograph of Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick (age 48)

18 Aug 1910. Bassano Ltd. Photograph of Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick (age 48) with her daughter [her daughter] Mercy Greville (age 6).

Mercy Greville: On 03 Apr 1904 she was born to Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick. Some sources describe her father as Joseph Frederick Laycock. On 12 Nov 1968 Mercy Greville died.

In 1928 Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick (age 66) was facing imprisonment in HM Prison Holloway for her debts but was released on condition that if and when she published her memoirs she would "undertake to submit it to a literary man". She published Life's Ebb and Flow the following year.

Life's Ebb And Flow by Frances Countess of Warwick. 1929. Life’s Ebb & Flow By Frances, Countess Of Warwick (age 67). "I scarcely count these things our own".